Word: explaining
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Suspect Virus. A link between cervical cancer and poor hygiene, plus lack of circumcision, would be easier to explain if an infectious agent could be implicated. Researchers at Baylor University have found a suspect. It is a virus technically known as Herpesvirus hominis, Type II, closely related to the herpes virus, Type I, which causes fever blisters around the mouth. Type II infects the genital regions of both sexes; it is found in smegma, the secretion under the foreskin, and is readily transmitted during sexual contact...
...whether to fly toward or away from the North Star. The most likely agent, he thinks, is a hormone or combination of hormones, secreted in response to varying amounts of daylight as the seasons change. If Emlen can identify these hormones and discover how they work, he may help explain how similar biological clocks work in other animals, including...
...idea of basic protection was first formulated by Keeton and professor Jeffrey O'Connell of the University of Illinois in their 1965 book Basic Protection for the Traffic Victim. The two have also published a less technical book, When Cars Crash, to explain the plan to the layman...
...sighed. "How do you explain the police? Two policemen sit up there on the hill in a police car all night long smoking cigarettes, while we never see a single cop on this street...
Kleindienst did not explain why government officials consider Constitution Avenue-which roughly parallels Pennsylvania one block to the south-is more likely to minimize the danger of violence by militants...